LOWELL, Nov 16, 2008 (The Sun – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
— Police couldn’t say whether Guillermo Darlin still has a girlfriend.
He did on Friday. That’s when police say they saw Darlin, 26, of 270 Wilder St., and a passenger in the car he was driving, Tuan Nguyen, 35, of Lynn, conduct a drug deal in Dover Square about 7:30 p.m.
Officers stopped Darlin, learned his license was revoked, and found bags of marijuana Read the rest of this entry »
An 11th-hour Bush administration final rule may have bolstered protections for physicians and other health care professionals who object to providing abortion-related services based on moral or religious beliefs. But the regulation likely will be short-lived.
The move has prompted vehement protests by some opponents in Congress and several medical organizations. They say the regulation goes beyond existing protections and could endanger critical Read the rest of this entry »
The island city of Galveston and other areas along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Texas and Louisiana are struggling to begin their recovery from Hurricane Ike, which struck late last week. As VOA’s Greg Flakus reports from Houston, Texas, people who remain in some stricken areas without clean water or sewage systems could face major health risks.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has called them “knuckleheads,” but the several thousand people who defied evacuation Read the rest of this entry »
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An American doctor charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at a rural Australian hospital repeatedly botched operations and performed surgeries he was not capable of handling, a prosecutor said Monday.
In his opening statement in the pretrial hearing of Jayant Patel, prosecutor Ross Martin also said the doctor lied on his application to Bundaberg Base Hospital by neglecting to reveal he had been Read the rest of this entry »
Many homeowners are falling behind in their mortgage payments because of a loan they couldn’t afford or a job that they lost. But others, like one metro family, are in crisis because of an unforseen health problem.
The Guzman family lives in a modest three-bedroom home in the Northland. Michelle Guzman grew up in the house, and though her parents died in an auto accident in 1979, she fought for the Read the rest of this entry »
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An American doctor authorities say is linked to the deaths of at least 13 patients will appear in an Australian court this week on charges including manslaughter.
Dr. Jayant Patel is due to appear at a pre-trial hearing starting Monday on 16 charges — including three counts of manslaughter — relating to his job as director of surgery at a state-run hospital in northeastern Australia between 2003 and Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING (AP) — China faces a new problem with the tainted milk that has sickened babies and battered public confidence: How to get rid of the toxic stuff.
It has been burned, buried and mixed into coal. One trash-hauling company dumped a load into a river, turning the waters a frothy white and raising fears about the safety of the drinking water.
Tens of thousands of tons of milk laced with melamine, a chemical used in making fertilizer Read the rest of this entry »
Bad weather earlier in the year is being blamed for a delay in the opening of Clackmannanshire’s new £20m community hospital.
NHS Forth Valley said the facility, which was due to be completed this year, would now be finished in 2009.
The hospital will provide 45 in-patient beds for the physically frail and day services for mental health patients.
The area’s social services and a new Alloa Health Centre will also be based at the Glen Alva Mill Read the rest of this entry »
SANTA CRUZ — Jennifer Hastings didn’t become a doctor to close doors. Her goal has always been to care for the down-and-out.
But last month, at a management meeting for the downtown Santa Cruz Planned Parenthood, where she works as medical director, Hastings found herself discussing a proposal to refuse new Medicare patients. They required such frequent appointments and had such complex medical needs — and the clinic already was stretched so thin. Read the rest of this entry »
in building damage, ruined equipment, revenue losses, and cleanup and evacuation costs because of Hurricane Ike, and officials expect a “significant” number of layoffs at the 12,000-person facility, the
reports. Insurance will cover only $100 million of the damage, which far surpasses that at
after Hurricane Katrina. The damage includes campus buildings that took on as much as 8 feet of water and the destruction of the hospital’s kitchen, blood Read the rest of this entry »